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Tag: Canada

  • Canadians, Americans Get Different Drug Info in Web Searches

    A research team at University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada report that Canadians and Americans get much different search results when they look up prescription drug information online. Their findings were published yesterday in the online issue of the Annals of Pharmacotherapy (paid subscription required). The researchers found residents of the United States…

  • Clinical Trial Record Security Deemed Inadequate

    A study of Canadian clinical trial practices shows serious vulnerabilities in the security of participants’ personal data when the data are shared among authorized stakeholders. The findings appear online in the 11 February issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research. The study, by Khaled El-Emam of Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in…

  • Asian Patents Jump in 2010, Decline in U.S., Mixed in Europe

    The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) reports today that the number of patent filings under WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) increased in 2010, with the largest percentage gains recorded in Asia. Provisional data for 2010 indicate that 162,900 international patent applications were filed in 2010 compared to the 155,398 applications filed in 2009, an increase…

  • Canada Awards Grants to Solar Energy and Genomics Companies

    National Research Council of Canada, through its Industrial Research Assistance Program, awarded grants to Boreal Genomics Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Day4 Energy Inc. of Burnaby, British Columbia. The grants, totaling $CAD769,000, were awarded to support research and development projects that build high-tech solutions for global markets. Day4 Energy received $496,000 to develop a…